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| |name=McGuire's Irish Pub | | |name=McGuire's Irish Pub |
| |image=McGuiresIrishPub.jpg | | |image=McGuiresIrishPub.jpg |
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− | |location=600 East [[Gregory Street]] (Pensacola)<br/>33 [[Highway 98]] (Destin) | + | |location=600 E. Gregory Street, Pensacola<br/>33 Highway 98, Destin |
− | |opened=[[1977]] | + | |opened=1977 |
| |owner=[[McGuire Martin]] | | |owner=[[McGuire Martin]] |
| |chef=[[Jim Martin]] | | |chef=[[Jim Martin]] |
| |slogan="Feasting, Imbibery & Debauchery" | | |slogan="Feasting, Imbibery & Debauchery" |
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− | |phone=(850) 433-6789
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− | |website=[http://www.mcguiresirishpub.com/ http://www.mcguiresirishpub.com/]
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| |mapcode=<googlemap lat="30.417814" lon="-87.202048" type="map" zoom="15" width="288" height="288"> | | |mapcode=<googlemap lat="30.417814" lon="-87.202048" type="map" zoom="15" width="288" height="288"> |
| 30.395525, -86.511741, 33 [[Highway 98]] | | 30.395525, -86.511741, 33 [[Highway 98]] |
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− | [[McGuire's Irish Pub]] is a popular Pensacola restaurant and local [[:Category:Landmarks|landmark]]. Founded by [[McGuire Martin|McGuire]] and [[Molly Martin]] in [[1977]], the restaurant was originally located in [[Town & Country Plaza]]. McGuire's moved to its current [[Gregory Street]] location in [[1982]]. It is known for its on-site brewery and patron traditions, like kissing a stuffed moosehead and stapling autographed dollar-bill "tips" to the ceiling. A second location has also opened in [[Destin]]. | + | [[McGuire's Irish Pub]] is a popular Pensacola restaurant and local [[:Category:Landmarks|landmark]]. Founded by [[McGuire Martin|McGuire]] and [[Molly Martin]] in 1977, the restaurant moved to its [[Gregory Street]] location (Pensacola's [[1927 firehouse|original firehouse]]) in 1982. It is known for its on-site brewery and patron traditions, like kissing a stuffed moosehead and stapling autographed dollar-bill "tips" to the ceiling. A second location has also opened in [[Destin]]. |
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− | ==Locations==
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− | McGuire's Pensacola location, at 600 East [[Gregory Street]], is located in a 1927 building which was originally a [[1927 firehouse|firehouse]] and later the [[Old Firehouse Drive-In]]. The 20,000 square foot building has 400 seats in various themed rooms such as the Pipers Den, Notre Dame Room, The Irish Links Room and the Ruprecht O'Tolf Wine Cellar.<ref name="site">[http://www.mcguiresirishpub.com/ McGuire's Irish Pub website]</ref> There is also a private dining room where the [[Irish Politicians Club]] meets.
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− | A second location opened in [[Destin]] in [[1996]].
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− | The McGuires have three children
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− | ==Food and drink==
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− | McGuire's offers steak and seafood along with [[Wikipedia:Irish cuisine|Irish cuisine]] and pub fare.
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− | The restaurant was named Steak House of the Year by the National Beef Council in [[1998]]. McGuire's advertises its steaks as "Certified Angus corn-fed beef, never frozen and hand cut daily."<ref name="site" /> McGuire's menu also features more than 20 hamburgers, including the $100 "Grand Burger", made with [[Wikipedia:Filet mignon|filet mignon]] and served with caviar and champagne.<ref name="menu">[http://www.mcguiresirishpub.com/MenuPDFs/McGuires_Dinner-Green.pdf McGuire's Irish Pub menu]</ref>
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− | McGuire's also operates its own [[Wikipedia:Brewery|brewery]], brewing five regular beers and one seasonal variety, as well as [[Wikipedia:Root beer|root beer]].<ref>[http://www.mcguiresirishpub.com/brewery.html McGuire's Irish Pub Brewery]</ref>
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− | The restaurant has won numerous Florida Trend Magazine's Golden Spoon Awards and Wine Spectator Magazine Awards of Excellence.<ref name="site" />
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− | ==Traditions==
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− | McGuire's has a number of prominent traditions:
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− | ===Dollar bills===
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− | Stapled to the walls and ceilings of McGuire's Pensacola location are more than 750,000 one dollar bills. According the restaurant, when Molly McGuire received a dollar bill as her first tip, she tacked it up behind the bar for good luck. Other patrons "added to the collection" and it soon became a McGuire's tradition.
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− | ===Kissing the moose===
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− | First-time visitors and special guests are encouraged to kiss a large stuffed moose head mounted near the music stage.
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− | ==Sponsorships==
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− | Since [[1988]], McGuire's has sponsored the [[McGuire's Pipe Band]].
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− | Each year, McGuire's sponsors the [[McGuire's St. Patrick's Day 5K Run]], which is billed as the largest prediction run in America.
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− | ==Restroom signage controversy==
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− | Since McGuire's first opened in Pensacola in [[1977]], its restroom signage has been playfully misleading; for instance, the sign on the women's restroom door states "Men's Room" with the small text "This way to" above, as well as a hand pointing toward the adjacent men's restroom, and vice-versa. Many patrons do not notice the smaller text or hand and hence walk into the incorrect restroom. The signs are widely recognised as a long-running joke and tradition. Similarly misleading signage was installed in the Destin location upon its opening.
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− | [[Image:McGDestinsignage.jpg|thumb|left|The Destin restroom signage, now removed]]On [[April 24]], [[2007]], someone using the name "[[Chris Hall]]" filed a complaint with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), claiming a man walked in on his fifteen-year-old daughter while she was in the women's restroom. Shortly thereafter, the Destin McGuire's was ordered by the DBPR to remove the confusing signage.<ref>[http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770517026 "McGuire's forced to change bathroom signs"] - ''Pensacola News Journal'', May 17, 2007.</ref> The ''News Journal'' later reported that more than 3,000 patrons of the Destin location signed a petition asking for the return of the old signage within a 10-day period.<ref>[http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007705180338 "Girl's father finds little humor in landmark's infamous restroom signs"] - ''Pensacola News Journal'', May 18, 2007.</ref> General Manager Billy Martin defended the signs, saying "“We’re not trying to be malicious. It’s an Irish joke kind of thing.”<ref>[http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/5298 "State forces McGuire’s to remove 'joke' restroom signs"] - ''Northwest Florida Daily News'', May 16, 2007.</ref>
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− | The story was picked up by the [[Wikipedia:Associated Press|Associated Press]] and was published in various newspapers including the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' and the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', as well as other national news outlets and online blogs and web sites.
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− | The order to remove the confusing signage at the Destin location did not apply to the McGuire's in Pensacola. However, on [[May 24]], [[2007]], the ''News Journal'' reported that the Pensacola location had also been ordered to remove its similar signage after a DBPR inspection cited the restaurant for "lack of signage properly designating bathrooms".<ref>[http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070524/NEWS01/705240318/1006 "Losing its bathroom humor"] - ''Pensacola News Journal'', May 18, 2007.</ref> Notably, the Destin restaurant was inspected in January 2007 (as well as many times over the past several years) and was not at any time cited for the signage. Attorney [[Jim Reeves]] recommended to owner [[McGuire Martin]] that he fight the order to remove the signs.<ref>[http://www.pnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070526/NEWS01/705260329/1006 "McGuire's complainant a mystery"] - ''Pensacola News Journal'', May 26, 2007.</ref>
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− | The Department of Business and Professional Regulation and McGuire's eventually came to an agreement that would allow McGuire's to keep their famous signs posted; McGuire's installed a second set of swinging doors after the signs but before the restroom areas.
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